At least they committed to HD within a specific time frame in both the initial message here and the news article. I don't recall seeing them do that with any of the other apps. (The best other apps was a response in the forum indicating giving an expected fuzzy time frame that then passed, or simply an indication it was being worked on, with no indication of when it could be expected).

tl;dr version: It appears PS3 owners will be the first to get a app with HD (that isn't simply re-using the Flash stream).

Nice. Comparing the pictures of the new PS3 app with the Boxee Box app I notice two things. Our lack of the ability to Search and skip from First to Last (and vice versa) while browsing shows. Will we be getting these features any time soon?

Yeah, there are certain problems I've experienced so far, like: video freezing for a couple seconds every other minute or so; subtitles becoming un-synced with the video; application quitting by itself for some reason.

However, I am very pleased that the app finally got rolled out, and once the major problems become fixed it'll most likely become my most used app next to netflix.